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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Joining the military had seemed like the
right thing to do, but when war breaks out in Europe Robert wonders if he
hasn’t made the biggest mistake of his life. The Russian juggernaut grinds its
way toward Italy,
the country Robert has grown to love. As one of a handful of American soldiers
in the area, he must find a way to help the ragged remnants of NATO’s forces to
prevent any more European nations from falling.

While back home, the rest of the Williams
family struggles to protect themselves in the face of an impending civil war.
The very fabric of society continues to unravel, threatening the destruction of
the Constitution and the American way of life.

As Vice President, Calvin McCord continues
to defy both sides of the political divide in order to find a solution to the
war in Europe, the ravaging of the United States,
and an espionage ring within the White House.

RANDY LINDSAY is a native of Arizona. He lives in Mesa with his wife, five
of his nine children, and a hyper-active imagination. His wife calls him the
“Storyman” because he sees everything as material for a good story. Randy’s
first novel, The Gathering: End’s
Beginning, was published in 2014. He has also been published in several
anthologies during 2013-2014. If you want to find out more you can check him
out at RandyLindsay.net.

Top Ten List:

I love top ten lists. I post them on my
website whenever I can find an excuse to do one. In fact, I’m
thinking I should put one together on my ten favorite top ten lists.
Before I do that I better finish my list of Randy’s Ten Favorite
Things.

Saturday, August 8, 2015

"When Avery Shaw’s heart is shattered by her life-long best friend, she chooses to deal with it the only way she knows how—scientifically. The state science fair is coming up and Avery decides to use her broken heart as the topic of her experiment. She’s going to find the cure. By forcing herself to experience the seven stages of grief through a series of social tests, she believes she will be able to get over Aiden Kennedy and make herself ready to love again. But she can’t do this experiment alone, and her partner (ex partner!) is the one who broke her heart. Avery finds the solution to her troubles in the form of Aiden’s older brother Grayson. The gorgeous womanizer is about to be kicked off the school basketball team for failing physics. He’s in need of a good tutor and some serious extra credit. But when Avery recruits the lovable Grayson to be her “objective outside observer,” she gets a whole lot more than she bargained for, because Grayson has a theory of his own: Avery doesn’t need to grieve. She needs to live. And if there’s one thing Grayson Kennedy is good at, it’s living life to the fullest."

Kelly Oram wrote her first novel at age fifteen--a fan fiction about her favorite music group, The Backstreet Boys, for which her family and friends still tease her. She's obsessed with reading, talks way too much, and likes to eat frosting by the spoonful. She lives outside of Phoenix, Arizona with her husband, four children, and a cat named Mr. Darcy.

Question and Answer with the AuthorHow did you come to write this particular book or series?
I
remember the day I came up with the idea, but not exactly how the
concept popped into my head. I went for a run. (Okay, it was more of a
walk-run during one of my on-again times where I was dedicated to
working out. The off-again times are way more frequent.)

Anyway,
I'd gone for a run and it was one of those precious moments where I was
by myself, no distractions, no kids--just me and my thoughts. The
concept for a girl getting over a broken heart using the seven stages of
grief popped into my head, and before that half an hour (yes, that's
all I can run before I want to die) was over, I had most of the book
plotted.

I was in the middle of another manuscript at the time,
but I went home and wrote Avery's prologue right away. Five weeks later I
had a finished book. The Avery Shaw Experiment had been my easiest book
to write so far. It just flowed so naturally, and honestly, I blame
that on Avery and Grayson's natural chemistry. (Hehe science pun totally
intended!)

Snippet Time

Grayson:

Where
does one even begin when talking about Avery Shaw? I’ve known her, her whole
life, and yet I’ve never really gotten to know her.

She
and her mom have been unofficial members of my family since our moms threw up
on each other in a prenatal yoga class when I was fourteen months old. They
only got closer after Avery’s dad skipped town when Avery was four. My family
sort of adopted them, and my father took his place as the only male role model
in Avery’s life.

I
always looked at her as sort of a pesky little sister, but that all changed the
day my brother dumped her. Why, you ask? Let me put it this way: When a girl
lets you be the one to hold her as her entire world falls apart, even though
you’re ass naked, it changes the way you see her.

The
soaking-wet, see-through t-shirt didn’t hurt, either.

It
took me a while to get out of the shower after Avery finally left. I had to let
the water run cold first because, well, because I had to. Plus, I needed some
time to process. Avery Shaw had suddenly barged into so much more than just my
shower. She’d also crashed into my head in a way I never thought possible and
maybe even wormed her way into my heart a little bit. I had no freaking clue
how to handle that, much less what to do about it. But I had to do something.
Avery was destroyed and completely incapable of fixing herself.

That
was the moment the Avery Shaw Experiment started for me. It wasn’t defined yet,
and I had no idea I’d be earning extra credit for it—that was an added
bonus—but that was the first time I realized Avery Shaw had the potential to be
so much more than what she was. All she needed was a little help from someone
normal and cool who could introduce her to life the way it’s supposed to be
lived.

About Me

Hi! I'm a preschool teacher who also manages and owns a small production company for voice acting and our various productions, called The Manga Project. I am also an avid reader, and a writer of fiction, fan fiction, fantasy, some sci-fi, poetry, and general non-sense.
I like to cook and bake a lot, though I usually don't have a lot of time, between producing/directing, teaching, and writing.
I just put out my first publication, The Unknown Elf, and am crossing fingers that it does well.